Education

As the school year is poised to launch excitedly tommorow, I have spent the last two days helping my mentor teacher get the classroom ready. Arranging desks, putting up posters, stamping books, going through class rosters, preparing curriculum, staff...

Discoveries Unlimited is taking an innovative, individual approach to inspiring and supporting female youths' interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).  By assessing the student’s interest in an area of STEM, they will...

Twenty-one higher education institutions in Indiana will receive grants to develop support programs and services for student service members and veterans. The grants were awarded through Operation Diploma, an initiative of the Military Family...

Technical assistance report from the Planning and the Black Community Division of the APA calls for equitable development in Gary. Two years after its membership held a biennial meeting in Gary and at Indiana University Northwest, the Planning and...

The Purdue University College of Agriculture and Ivy Tech Community College-Lafayette are partnering on a new program to help make higher education even more accessible to Indiana students. The Pathway Program, announced Thursday (Aug. 13) during the...

Personal growth and continued education are not only important for clients at Opportunity Enterprises (OE), they are key components for staff as well. That is why nine of OE’s direct support professionals (DSPs) graduated last week from Ivy Tech...

Purdue University North Central faculty member Dr. Li Tan, assistant professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering Technology recently traveled to China to present a paper at a conference and to share his knowledge with mechanical engineering...

As I get ready to start my student teaching; I am becoming more and more excited about the experience. I spent the last couple of days out of the office attending teacher workshops that were being offered to teaching staff where I would be teaching....

President Barack Obama announced Wednesday (Aug. 5) that Purdue University will receive a $6.1 million grant to develop degree and training programs for electric vehicles. Purdue will partner with Notre Dame University, Indiana University-Purdue...

Indiana University announced that 18 entering freshmen and two current IU juniors will join the more than 420 others who have been named Wells Scholars since the first class enrolled in 1990. Sonia Phadke, of Valparaiso, Ind., valedictorian and a...